Landry (Coast Guard): No silver bullet to stop leak. Could take 4-7 days or longer for LMRP cap operation. Bad weather there today, entering hurricane season also, situation very fluid. Dispersents have been "very successful"

Landry (Coast Guard): No silver bullet to stop leak. Could take 4-7 days or longer for LMRP cap operation. Bad weather there today, entering hurricane season also, situation very fluid. Dispersents have been "very successful"

The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis

Why in thee Hell do they think this will work when top hat was clogged so quickly?!?!?!

Um, one would think this cap with a different techno name will just as well clog!

Jeese fucking MORANS!!!!!

Quoting: ºCRAPº

How can you cap a bent riser on top of a BOP that is 60 feet above the sea floor? You can't. The top hat was for a leak coming out of the riser which was laying on the sea floor. They are two different leaks.

BP COO said that the flow shouldn't be affected by a cut.. was it the riser though they said? God it's so complicated... Anyways, based on SHR's most grateful summation, when BP COO said that is when I started praying.

OMG

And ET your comments are always spot on my friend.

Did anyone catch that part of the interview when the red and blue jacket trainees were woken up at midnight unexpectedly?

In other words, Obama was totally busted with his dog and pony show so they had to pretend it was always going on haha

The guy they interviewed quit the job lol Wasn't worth the money they said.

I feel sorry for the real worker guys who are out there in the ocean carrying out the dirty work ordered by their masters. I would like to see the Masters out there doing it, & when there is another explosion the masters will be blown to hell. Now that would make my day.

So they intend to cut off the pipe sticking out of the BOP and then slide a cap around it that will allow them to siphon the oil up to the surface. What are the risks??

Once the tube is removed it will alleviate all of the pressure on the BOP as the oil will be free flowing into the sea. So the amount of oil shooting out of the pipe will be enormous, many times worse than it is now.

They will most likely use all of the ROVS to guide this contraption down, hoping that the oil shoots straight up through the center of it - kind of like sliding a ring on a finger. Of course, if any part of the LMRP Cap even touches the oil stream it will want to flip over - so they need to be very precise.

If they can pull this off then it should succeed. However, I believe the BOP has already dislodged itself from the sea floor and is currently being moved about by the oil pressure passing through it. We shall see